ERADICATE DESIRES AND REST IN YOUR DESIRELESS BLISSFUL SELF

The spiritual Sadhaka daily comes nearer and nearer to God. Day by day, his spiritualstruggle brings for him more and more freedom from earthly bondage, from Maya. Every desireannihilated adds new strength to the enhancement of this freedom. It is a fresh addition to the storeof inner happiness.Here are some of the methods of thinning out the Vasanas (desires).(1) Self-denial: Curtail all unnecessary wants, activities and mixing. Too much of contactswith friends and promiscuous mixing stimulate the old habits, previous Samskaras (latentimpressions). Hence worldly contacts should be reduced as far as possible. Exert a little pure will.Deny then and there and say, “No, I don’t want it, since it is not going to help my spiritualwell-being. Seek the counsel from the pure intellect and it will give you sure protection at therequired moment. Slowly you will develop an attitude of looking at sense-objects as poison anddelusive, a clever entrapment of Maya and then you will naturally deny them for your spiritualwelfare.(2) Vigilance: The past Samskaras are like dormant forces and coiled-up potential energieswhich sometimes assume violent forms and produce tremendous agitation in the

mind, totallyconfuse and bewilder it and make it assume the very forms of desires. This is called VishayakaraVritti.So vigilance must be resorted to. No amount of leniency should be given to the mind.(3) Non-cooperation: All the senses must be withdrawn slowly from their respective centresof pleasure. If you go on denying all the desires, then they will die a natural death.So continue this incessant process of dynamic self-denial and become a conqueror of alldesires. Thus having washed clean the mind of all Vasanas, the aspirant ultimately rejoices andsports in the pure consciousness, bliss and self-delight of Atmic awareness.